mirror

do it with mirrors

1. To do or perform something (especially a magic trick) by using an optical illusion. Everyone was astounded when he appeared to levitate off the ground, but I'm pretty sure he just did it with mirrors.

2. To do something in a highly secretive, illusory, or inexplicable way, likened to that of a magic trick. The military operation was completely unseen, completely unnoticed by anybody, as if they did it with mirrors.The company's CEO managed to swindle his clients out of millions of dollars, doing it with mirrors so that no one would notice the disappearance of the money until it was too late.

able to fog a mirror

Fig. Inf. alive, even if just barely. (Usually jocular. Alludes to the use of a small mirror placed under the nose to tell if a person is breathing or not. (Able to can be replaced with can.)Look, I don't need an athlete to do this job! Anybody able to fog a mirror will do fine!

smoke and mirrors

deception and confusion. (Said of statements or more complicated rhetoric used to mislead people rather than inform. Alludes to the way a magician uses optical illusion to create believability while performing a trick. Fixed order.) Most people know that the politician was just using smoke and mirrors to make things look better than they really were. Her report was little more than smoke and mirrors. No one will believe any of it.

smoke and mirrors

(American & Australian)

something which is intended to confuse or deceive people, especially by making them believe that a situation is better than it really is Smoke and mirrors made the company seem bigger and healthier than it really was. It was just clever marketing.

Using iSCSI virtualizationsoftware, mirrored partner volumes are defined from the local and remote storage system(see Figure 2).

To make the configuration complete, the iSCSI switch in each respective recovery site is given a physical connection to the mirrored disk belonging to the respective primary site (see Figure 3).

As mentioned in the previous section, when used in conjunction with iSCSI switch mirroring and FC or third party FC tunneling techniques, it can provide an off-site disaster recovery facility which re-connects hosts with mirrored partners within seconds of primary site failure.

The Internet backbone is getting more congested all the time,'' Bayles continued, ``and having a site mirrored on local servers reduces the number of hops prospects and customers have to take to get to that site.

Bayles noted that a site can be mirrored in multiple countries simultaneously.

In addition, NETouch provides users with reports detailing site utilization in each of the countries mirrored.

All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.